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Political violence casts spotlight on free, fair polls
WITH political violence escalating in Zimbabwe, national elections slated for later this year face questions about whether the polls will meet free and fair international benchmarks.Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:33hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora claims high level engagements with CCC and Zanu-PF
MDC Alliance President Douglas Mwonzora has claimed his party, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and the ruling Zanu-PF have been engaged in "high level" discussions since early last year....Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 05:07hrs | 3236 | by Staff reporter
Foreign-funded NGOs give conditional backing for Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (ZHRNGO Forum), a union of 22 rights organisations whose relationship with government have been shaky for over a decade, has expressed its support for re-admission ...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | 681 | by Staff reporter
Petitioners ropes in international stakeholders for Sikhala's release?
PETITIONERS, who want an end to the lengthy incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, have called for "urgent action" to rope in international s...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
55 000 petition Mnangagwa for Sikhala, Sithole release
ABOUT 55 000 Zimbabweans locally and abroad yesterday petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the second time over continued incarceration of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators Job Si...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's attempts to internationalise Sikhala case flops
CCC interim spokesperson, Gift "Ostallos" Siziba and a retinue of other opposition members and other detractors were in the United States for the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that ran f...Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:00hrs | 578 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Sikhala's continued imprisonment riles colonial masters in UK
THE continued incarceration of opposition lawmakers Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole, together with 14 Nyatsime residents for over 100 days, has cast Zimbabwe's deteriorating political situation under ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1062 | by Staff reporter
48 000 petition Mnangagwa over Sikhala
SOME 48 000 people comprising Zimbabweans and citizens of other countries have signed a petition calling for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's intervention in the continued detention of opposition legisl...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 982 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's problem is Zanu-PF's intimidation and kleptocracy, not the country's youth
THERE is a certain blindness in understanding the nature of Zimbabwean politics and elections if the problem is mostly attributed to an apathetic youth. A more analytical view includes other consequen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:41hrs | 257 | by Tony Reeler
Zanu-PF would have to defy reality to win in 2023
When Zimbabwe enters the pre-election circus, usually two years before elections are due, and the Afrobarometer produces a survey, the only interest the survey generates is in the estimates of which p...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ask why Dumiso Dabengwa crushed ZimRights Gukurahundi investigations while Minister of Home Affairs!
While accusations are still hot on Obert Gutu, can we revisit our past and see where things went wrong for the victims of Gukurahundi in Matabeleland and Midlands. I maintain that what Gutu uttered wa...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 06:13hrs | 92 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Zanu PF has dismembered MDC A, will not need to rig to win 2023' - only counter, demand reforms before 2023
Dear Tony Reeler,Thank you very much for your thought-provoking article 'Zanu PF won't concede electoral defeat' in New Zimbabwe and Bulawayo24. The root cause of Zimbabwe economic meltdown an...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zanu-PF won't concede electoral defeat'
Zanu-PF will not concede to any electoral defeat as it fears being held to account for widespread human rights violations it is accused of committing over the past four decades.The claim was m...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's rogue state agents warned
PERPETRATORS of state-sponsored violence, abductions and torture are not immune to prosecution and can face their day in court in whatever capacity to answer to charges, a top human rights defender ha...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How the Khupe coup resonates with the import of Excelgate
Thi's time last year, Excelgate was about to be published, in the ex-pectation, inter alia, that the MDC Alliance, in particular, would capitalise on the revelations therein, to both fuel their legal ...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:11hrs | 8 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Response to State coordinated attack on civil society
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) has noted with great regret the state's coordinated and systematic attack on civil society organisations in Zimbabwe through falsehoods in the media, ar...Published: 29 May 2019 at 15:46hrs | | by Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum
Why the govt's call for national unity will fail
CALLS for national unity have been commonplace in the past two decades, but have taken on a new urgency since November 2017.However, since November 2017, and the coup, these calls are increasi...Published: 10 May 2019 at 14:08hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Towards the National Transitional Authority
IntroductionIn 2016, the Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) warned that the country was heading into deep trouble and a possible coup. This was the only possible outcome for the disintegrat...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:43hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
Chamisa, Mnangagwa neck-and-neck
ZIMBABWEANS believe MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa could deliver jobs if elected to office at the end of the month compared to his rival and incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:30hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's weakness exposed
The poor turnout for a Zanu-PF march in Harare raises questions about how popular the party of ousted former president Robert Mugabe really is, and what this could mean for the elections slated for 30...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: From BBC to Alice in Wonderland
Chamisa shifted uncomfortably in the chair that suddenly looked too big for him and he blinked uncontrollably as if to say hamuwoniwo ndichi mudiki, zvakwana.It's very rare for politicians to ...Published: 13 May 2018 at 11:34hrs | 627 | by zimpapers
Zimbabwe opposition urged to boycott polls
OPPOSITION parties in Zimbabwe need to create a crisis that will result in international intervention to come up with conditions for a free and fair election, a leading academic has said.Speak...Published: 12 May 2018 at 13:53hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa calls for urgent electoral reforms in Oxford Union address
The MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has called for urgent electoral reforms to ensure that the general elections scheduled for July this year are free, fair and credible. Sp...Published: 08 May 2018 at 19:51hrs | | by Our Correspondent
Mnangagwa can't bury past
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under fire for calling on Zimbabweans to "bury" the past with critics saying the country cannot move forward without first addressing injustices such as Gukurahun...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's risky move
State media in Zimbabwe are reporting that former president Robert Mugabe is backing the National Patriotic Front (NPF), a breakaway party from the ruling Zanu-PF, in a bid to make a political comebac...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 13:03hrs | 11049 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Makoni, Biti, Mujuru, Dabengwa to attend 'regime change' conference
A conference to deliberate on regime change and "transition" in Zimbabwe ahead of next year's harmonised elections has been slated for Harare later this month.The conference, running under the...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 07:00hrs | 1283 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mujuru, Tsvangirai to miss crisis indaba
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and two opposition leaders, Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and Joice Mujuru (Zimbabwe People First), are likely to miss Thursday's proposed all-parties consultative meeting to d...Published: 13 Sep 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
The lawful offenders in opposition ranks
The opposition forces fronting the regime change agenda have never embraced the tenets of democracy, at the core of which is the need to uphold the constitution so as to facilitate the prevalence of l...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 11:03hrs | | by Sambulo Vuma
Sadc has no time for non-issues
Opposition parties in our country and their civil society runners clearly overestimate themselves and their agenda.They view themselves as fighting for the second independence of this coun...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff writer
Zim 'bereft of capacity to reform' said Reeler - street protest is no proof of cure
"Zimbabwe is a country in crisis," wrote Tony Reeler, "bereft of any capacity to reform – neither politically nor economically. This is common cause for all Zimbabweans, and a major reason for the c...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 21:05hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Dabengwa, Biti lay into Mugabe
WITH pressure mounting on President Robert Mugabe to relinquish power, opposition Zapu and People's Democratic Party leaders Dumiso Dabengwa and Tendai Biti have described the Zanu PF leader as a ...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mugabe coalition takes shape
The move to form a coalition of opposition parties to fight President Robert Mugabe in the 2018 elections will take a huge leap tomorrow when 18 opposition party leaders meet in Harare in an effort to...Published: 21 Aug 2016 at 09:37hrs | 1260 | by Staff reporter
56 organisation attends Transitional Justice principles meeting
About 56 organisatins attended the Transitional Justice Principles meeting in Harare on July 23 and 24, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum has revealed.The organisation is seeking for fee...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 07:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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